YMMV / I Will Survive

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• Accidental Aesop: Since Judy resorts to physical violence during the argument, many readers came to the conclusion that we're meant to sympathize with the pro-life Nick over Judy, and that him deciding to break up with her is supposed to be seen as the right thing to do rather than a Downer Ending. This led to an anti-abortion moral being assigned to the comic despite it not actually taking a stance on the matter.
• Audience-Alienating Premise: It's a Zootopia comic... showing two beloved characters from the movie dealing with an unplanned pregnancy by tearing their relationship apart because neither side is willing to compromise or make an effort to understand the other. During the course of their argument, each side takes up positions with heavy pro-choice or pro-life overtones. Even those in the furry and Zootopia fandoms (many who otherwise enjoy somewhat dark fanfiction) can't help but raise an eye to the idea, never mind people outside of the fandoms who aren't used to Dark Fics about cute Funny Animal characters.
• Awesome Art: One positive aspect about the comic is its beautiful art direction, on par with Borba's other works. The level of detail in the designs and backgrounds, the shading, the paneling layout, and perfectly translating the original CGI designs into 2D make the comic feel like a genuine canon comic.
• Broken Base: When the comic was completed, it created considerable dissension in the Zootopia fanbase generating over 1000 comments on Borba's deviantArt page where it was published. There are those who liked it and felt it is a strong piece of emotional story-telling around an divisive issue and those that dislike it and feel it is a heavy-handed work of manipulative story-telling intended to do nothing more than provoke an emotional reaction from the reader. There doesn't seem to be a middle-ground surrounding this work.
• Common Knowledge: This comic is often described as having a pro-life message. The comic doesn't actually take a stance about whether Judy or Nick is right or wrong, and it's more of a character study than an attempt at moralizing. But because the topic of abortion is so controversial, most stories that deal with the issue tend to be Anvilicious one way or the other, leading people to assume that Borba was also trying to send a message about it, and it's easy to come to the conclusion that we're meant to sympathize with Nick when Judy loses control of her emotions and physically strikes him, with him walking out on Judy being seen as a happy ending for him rather than the Downer Ending it's meant to be. The sequel, Born To Be Alive, tries to address this misconception by making Judy more obviously sympathetic.
• Fetish Retardant: Judy's attire consists of a tank top and tight shorts and is drawn in ways that provide quite a bit of Male Gaze throughout the comic. However, it clashes very badly with the comic's subject matter, overall tone and downer ending.
• Memetic Mutation: The comic became a huge meme rather quickly due to its unusual premise and its presentation. The panels where Judy mentions her pregnancy, Nick's reaction, and Judy slapping Nick are especially memetic.
  • One memetic version of the comic has the dialogue altered so that the core conflict revolves around Nick's obsession with Arby's.
  • The page where Judy slaps Nick has also gotten memetic with many edits or fanart replacing either Judy or Nick.
  • Judy's Face in this page's last panel has also gotten very memetic due to how strange it is.
  • People have incorporated Nick and Judy into the loss comic from Ctrl+Alt+Del.
• Narm: Over-the-top melodrama aside, Nick asks Judy at one point what would have happened if her mother had decided to "interrup her pregnancy." Not only does the story try to dance around the word "abortion," but the fact that the text is in bold draws attention to the glaring typo in an otherwise emotional moment.
• Overshadowed by Controversy: Borba purports that the webcomic was intended to be a character study of the breakup of Nick and Judy's relationship. However because the story involves an unplanned and unwanted pregnancy, most discussion was quickly subsumed by the controversial topic of abortion and devolved into pro-life and pro-choice debates often having little to do with the story or the characters.
• Uncertain Audience: It is difficult to determine which sector of the Zootopia fandom the comic is aimed at, since it has a very mature plot for children, and many adults would have problems taking it seriously since it is based on a children's movie. Although the fact that Judy and Nick were promoted to love interests could imply that it was aimed at shippers, but the fact that the comic also acts as a Ship Sinking makes it hard to believe that was the target audience.
• Unintentional Uncanny Valley: Generally, Borba's artwork is nicely drawn and captures the images of Nick and Judy well. However, in some panels, Borba has a tendency to make Judy's lips a little too full and her eyes have too much eyelash, which gives Judy the appearance of a rabbit with human eyes and lips.
• Watch It for the Meme: It would have remained an obscure Zootopia fan-comic if not for this.
• What Do You Mean, It's Not Political?: The webcomic wasn’t made to take a stance on abortion. That hasn’t stopped readers from getting into debates over such a controversial topic, however.

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